Kansas and Kansans in World War I : service at home and abroad /
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- 1916
- The President Comes to Topeka: Woodrow Wilson and the "Preparedness" Debate
- Oskaloosa Forms a Company in the National Guard
- The Kansas National Guard at the Mexican Border
- "Today we stand behind the nation's chosen leader": Kansas Supports War With Germany
- The Army Draft and "Fatal Number 258"
- Kansas "Rainbow" Guardsmen: The 117th Ammunition Train of the 42nd Division
- Camp Funston: Whites and Blacks Form the 89th and 92nd Divisions
- Camp Doniphan: Kansas and Missouri Guardsmen Form the 35th Division
- 1917
- Kansas Home Front: Support, Suppression, and Suspicion
- First in France: Charles Orr, Clyde Grimsley, and Frank Cadue of the 1st Division
- Victory at Cantigny: Charles Avery, Harry Martin, and Clarence Huebner of the 1st Division
- Belleau Wood: The Holton Marine Band and James Harbord of the 2nd Division
- Rocks of the Marne: Ulysses Grant McAlexander and Thomas Reid of the 3rd Division
- Death in the Trenches: Company B and the Vosges Mountains
- St. Mihiel and the 89th Division: September 12, 1918
- Meuse-Argonne and the 35th Division: September 26 and 27, 1918
- Meuse-Argonne and the 35th Division: September 28, 29, and 30, 1918
- Meuse-Argonne and the 89th Division: November 1 and 2, 1918
- Black Kansas Soldiers: Fighting Germans and Segregation
- Medals of Honor: John Balch, Erwin Bleckley, George Mallon, and George Robb
- 1919-2024
- Kansas Home Front: Distrust, Coercion, and Influenza
- Prisoners of War and the YMCA: Clyde Grimsley, Melvin Dyson, and Conrad Hoffman
- The Kansas Home Front after the War: Joy, Uncertainty, Anger, and Remembrance
- The Boys of Company B: Davis, Segraves, Nichols, and Gutschenritter.